Diomidis Spinellis
— @CollSWEng on Twitter —
is a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece,
Professor of Software Analytics in the Department of Software Technology of the Delft University of Technology, and director of the Business Analytics Laboratory (BALab)
His research interests include software engineering, IT security, and cloud systems engineering.
He has written two award-winning, widely-translated books:
Code Reading and
Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective.
His most recent book is Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems.
Dr. Spinellis has also published more than 300 technical papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, which have received more than 11500 citations.
He served for a decade as a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, authoring the regular “Tools of the Trade” column, and as the magazine's Editor-in-Chief over the period 2015–2018.
He has contributed code that ships with Apple’s macOS and BSD Unix and is the developer of git-issue, Cscout, UMLGraph, dgsh, and other open-source software packages, libraries, and tools.
He holds an MEng in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science, both from Imperial College London.
Dr. Spinellis is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.
In a previous life he was four times winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.
Nowadays he tries to keep his code boring.